“Corrective vision surgery takes on a whole new meaning in ‘Chinatownland.’ The result is a cartography that includes our blindspots. In ‘Chinatownland,’ juxtaposition, one of disruption’s favorite tools, simultaneously blurs and focuses...
“‘Goose Theory’ did a lot in its densely packed self, notably a palpable balance of both joy and dread; a love and a playfulness of language that is all too aware of language’s history of reduction, destruction, and colonial vivisection. It takes the...
The Coffin, the Ship by Mel Kassel from BWR 46.1 At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire. Here’s what will happen: he’ll knock gently on the ship’s hull. I’ll push the circle of glass outward, and he’ll slip inside as a rush of Spanish moss. He’ll...
” ‘What it Took’ is—thankfully, blessedly, refreshingly—strange. Visceral and seething, this story contains all the ingredients of a forbidden spell, and reading it is like tucking into an ancient grimoire. The most affecting stories are often...
The Empty by Panpan Song from BWR 46.1 I. Prayer for the Feeding of the Hungry Ghosts In the fall of 2013, I had recently moved to New York, when I ran into an acquaintance from some years ago in Shanghai. He was working for an investment bank in Midtown and said, if...
Socratic Wig by Sara Kachelman from BWR 46.2 A reading by the author https://bwr.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Socratic-Recording.m4a I found my mother’s hair on a foam head at Wigland. It lit up the downtown window display. Above it a sign said: the last true...
